Holi festival

In March 2013 men who have been daubed with bright colours and dressed in imitation of the Hindu god Krishna rest at the Nandagram temple in Nandgaon, Uttar Pradesh, India, during the annual Lath-mar Holi. When the merriment begins, the men of Nandgaon tease the women of neighbouring Barsana, who strike them with long wooden sticks in commemoration of an amusing episode in the life of Krishna.